Learning Objectives: This lesson teaches you how to ask what things are by using the Arabic words for this, as well as ways to intensify or soften what you say by using the Arabic words for 'very' and 'a little'. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to make polite requests, including placing an order in a restaurant.

Key Sentence: At the end of this lesson you'll be able to understand and use sentences similar to:

This is Falafel haadhaahi falaafil

هٰذه فَلافِل

Dialogue

Instructions:

Take the Dialogue Vocab Quiz until you pass.

Study the dialogue (Arabic and translation) until you understand it.

Listen to the audio at least twice.

Read the dialogue out loud at least twice.

Dialogue

Arabic

English

ما

maa

What?

فَلافِل

falaafil

Falafel

هٰذا

haadhaa

This (masc)

هٰذَهِ

haadhahi

This (fem)

لَذيذ

ladhiidh

Delicious

مُمتاز

mumtaaz

Great

قَليلاً

qaliilan

A little

جِدّاً

jiddan

Very

جَوعان

jaw3aan

Hungry

أيضاً

ayDan

Also

كِبّة

kibba

Kibbeh, meatball

مُمكِن

mumkin

May I?, maybe

(click)Vocab Quiz

Listen to this dialogue:

: Waiter.تَفَضّلوا

tafaDDluu

: Jamalهَل هٰذَهِ قَهوَة؟

hal haadhahi qahwa?

: Waiter.لا, هٰذا شاي. هٰذَهِ قَهوَة

laa, haadhaa shaay. haadhahi qahwa.

: Sueشُكراً. انا جَوعانة جدًا. ما هٰذا؟

Shukran. Anaa jaw3aana jiddan, maa haadhaa?

: Waiter.هٰذَهِ فَلافِل

haadhahi falaafil

: Sueهَل هٰذَهِ فَلافِل أيضاً؟

hal haadhahi falaafil ayDan?

: Waiter.لا, هٰذَهِ كِبّة

Laa, haadhahi kibba.

: Sueالفَلافِل لَذيذة مُمكِن فَلافِل مِن فَضلَك؟

Al-falaafil ladhiidha. Mumkin falaafil min faDlak.

: Jamalوأنا أريد كِبّة مِن فَضلك

Wa anaa uriid kibba min faDlak.

Translation:Waiter: Here you go.Jamal: Is this coffee?Waiter: No, this is tea. This is coffee.Sue: Thank you. I am very hungry. (Pointing to a picture on the menu) What is this?Waiter: This is falafel.Sue: (pointing to another picture) Is this falafel, too?Waiter: No, this is a meatball.Sue: Falafel is delicious. May I have falafel please?Jamal: And I'd like a meatball please.